Value-added distributor Cohort Technology has secured authorised education delivery partner status for Symantec in the UK and Ireland.

Under the terms of the agreement Cohort will supply authorised PGP training for Symantec’s customers and partners from its dedicated training centre in Basingstoke.

“We are delighted to be confirmed as a Symantec authorised education delivery partner. This accreditation means Cohort will offer the new five-day course delivered by its own Symantec-certified instructors which will replace PGP’s three-day PCT course,” said Ian Gilbey, services director at Cohort Technology.

“Our further investment to enhance our training offerings demonstrates our commitment to the value-add model on which our company is based.”

Jasmine Huxtable-Wright, senior manager of Symantec Education Services, was also enthusiastic about the partnership. “I am very pleased to have PGP training now available as part of the whole Symantec portfolio as a result of the acquisition of PGP in 2010. This is a key technology for our customers and partners,” she said.

“It is exciting to work directly with Cohort Technology who are very experienced in this product area. The new five-day PGP Universal Server 3.0 Administration course will be an important addition to our offerings.”

Military class certification provides further assurance against data loss at the MoD.

PGP Corporation, a provider of enterprise data protection, have announced that PGP Whole Disk Encryption has been formally approved by the Defence INFOSEC Product Co-operation Group (DIPCOG) as suitable for use within the Ministry of Defence (MOD) and British Armed Forces.

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Value added distributor Cohort Technology has secured Authorised Training Centre status for encryption software vendor PGP.

As a result, the distributor, which acquired rival VAD Appspeed last year can offer PGP Certified Technician (PCT) training for authorised partners at its Basingstoke training centre.
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PGP Universal Gateway Email is a soft appliance email security solution offered as an integrated part of the PGP Encryption Platform. This product encrypts, decrypts and digitally signs all outbound emails without having to install local clients on each host machine.

PGP offers the product by using a soft appliance concept. Organizations have the choice of product installations that match a number of common hardware vendors. We found installation to be very straightforward on our test machine. Although we did not test specific product integration, the ability to integrate Universal Gateway Email with other PGP and third-party products is impressive. The tool also comes integrated with PGP’s Universal Server, which allows for centralized administration of all PGP enterprise products.

Once installed, the solution performed very well, although we would caution buyers to choose higher-end hardware to help manage the additional load of digital signatures in the enterprise. The administrative interface is very slick. The centralized, yet granular, policy management – via Universal Server – makes integration into the enterprise easy to accomplish. Encryption and signing internal emails is completely transparent to both parties, with a choice of using S/MIME or OpenPGP. External users without an encryption client can receive messages via a Webmail interface or PGP’s PDF Messenger.

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